Table 2 Morbidity by demographic factors of the study population of under-five children with severe acute malnutrition attending University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka Zambia
Characteristic | Morbidity | P value* | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Marasmus | Kwashiorkor | Marasmic-Kwashiorkor | ||
%(n) | % (n) | % (n) | ||
Sex | 0.337 | |||
Male | 52 (1 023) | 54 (3 037) | 54 (824) | |
Female | 48 (929) | 46 (2 572) | 46 (685) | |
Median age | 15 months | 18 months | 17 months | 0.0001** |
IQR (11–20) | IQR (12–23) | IQR (12–22) | ||
HIV status | 0.000 | |||
Negative | 59.9 (1 050) | 69.6 (3 521) | 69.5 (942) | |
Positive | 40.1 (703) | 30.4 (1 537) | 414 (30.5) | |
Co-morbidity | 0.009 | |||
Anaemia | 7.4 (33) | 13.2 (121) | 13.4 (50) | |
Diarrhoea | 31.4 (140) | 27.6 (253) | 33.6 (125) | |
Pneumonia | 25.8 (115) | 210 (22.9) | 23.4 (87) | |
Septicaemia | 5.2 (23) | 5.4 (50) | 5.1 (19) | |
Tuberculosis | 35 (7.8) | 56 (6.1) | 7.5 (28) | |
Other | 99 (22.2) | 225 (24.6) | 16.7 (62) | |
Residence | 0.200 | |||
Lusaka | 91.9 (1 003) | 93.5 (2 656) | 93.0 (866) | |
Out of Lusaka | 8.1 (88) | 6.5 (183) | 7.0 (65) | |